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Work Values in Western and Eastern Europe

Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2011

The paper reports on work values in Europe. At the country level we find that job satisfaction is related to lower … Eastern and Western Europe. Socio-demographic factors, education, income, religiosity and religious denomination are … significant influences. We find additional differences between Eastern and Western Europe regarding work-leisure and work …

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Employed and Happy despite Weak Health? Labour Market Participation and Job Quality of Older Workers with Disabilities

Pollak, Catherine - Institut de Recherche et de Documentation en Économie … - 2012

panel data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we find that health status, job satisfaction, but …

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Latvia: Working Too Hard?

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime, unsocial working hours, health and safety at work, social...

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Gender and the Intensification of Work: Evidence from the European Working Conditions Surveys

Burchell, Brendan; Fagan, Colette - In: Eastern Economic Journal 30 (2004) 4, pp. 627-642

This paper uses the European Working Conditions Surveys to examine the intensity of work for male and female employees. The first section gives an overview of the usefulness of the survey for examining European Union (EU) working conditions and shows how women's intensity of work has been...

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Determinants of early retirement in Denmark. An empirical investigation using SHARE data

Gerke, Oke; Lauridsen, Jørgen T. - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2013

from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The outcome variable of interest was the self …

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Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates that in the important case of workers' decisions concerning exposure to fatal injury risk...

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The economic consequences of accidents at work

Mazzolini, Gabriele - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2014

This paper investigates the economic consequences of workplace accidents in the British labour market. For the empirical analysis, I use data on employment and earnings from the British Household Panel Survey and exploit fixed effects estimators to control for time-invariant unobserved...

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The economic consequences of accidents at work

Mazzolini, Gabriele - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2014

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Willingness to pay for public health policies to treat illnesses

Bosworth, Ryan; Cameron, Trudy Ann; DeShazo, J.R. - In: Journal of Health Economics 39 (2015) C, pp. 74-88

As the US pursues health care reform, it is important to understand the patterns in demand for, and opposition to, public provision of medical treatments. Using data from a nationally representative survey, we develop and estimate a utility-theoretic choice model to quantify demand for publicly...

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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion

Becchetti, Leonardo; Massari, Riccardo; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF regression, we analyse the increase in happiness inequality observed in Germany between 1992 and 2007,...

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